The Strange Case of 'CHIRP' from Minecraft
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- I recently revisited the Minecraft OST and I discovered a familiar sound that linked back to my childhood.
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Me!
Hell yeah!!
chirp is easily my favorite music disc
Things that these two composers have in common:
- Both are named Daniel.
- Both used this sample.
Lore
If i had a nickel for every time two well known composers sampled the same song for different games i would have two nickels which is not alot but its weird that it happened twice
@@stskits2402 if i had a nickel for every time i saw someone use the "if i had a nickel" quote, i'd have at least a hundred nickels, which is a lot of nickels and it's getting on my nerves
@@stskits2402 Not just two well-known composers, two composers named Daniel.
@@Solutra 😂😂😂😂😂😂 yeah, these memes are getting out of hand.
OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED THE CONNECTION I THOUGHT I'VE BEEN LOSING MY MIND ALL THESE YEARS
DUDE SAME I SWEAR, I KEPT TRYING TO TELL MY FRIENDS BUT NOBODY I KNEW PLAYED LBP
IM NOT ALOOOONE!!
same
FINALLY I KNEW IT WAS LITTLE BIG PLANET FOR SO LONG BUT NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND
Yup I have had the same thought too
Lbp has to be one of the most astounding games of all time
ABSOLUTELY
Indeed
@@BennySGB unfortunately I don’t think we are getting any closer to having LBP be revived
@@TheRealJackee4 restitched
@@zynerd didn’t that get shut down for copyright even though Sony isn’t doing a single thing about the game?
As a neurodivergent kid, littlebigplanet and minecraft were my biggest reoccurring hyperfixations growing up. Having that same music sample in both games meant the world to little me. I could constantly be reminded of my other favorite game whenever I heard the tune.
As a sporkmaxxing binklebopp, Finklestink was the focus of my hyperdicrotations.
@@TheSpartanlaw L bozo
@@TheSpartanlaw what
REAL!
@@TheSpartanlaw in my autismmaxxing era
Also Stal uses the Mellotron - the first ever sampler
Pretty sure I can hear one of the settings on Chirp as well
Man we all love Stal.
Pigstep also has a mellotron.
Its also the exact same sample the Beatles used in Strawberry Fields forever.
Chirp doesnt use the mellotron it uses the Optigan
one of the largest bands of the 90s, blur, also sampled an optigan preset, they used it for their album "13" in 1999
Oooooh I’ll check it out
which song in the album?
@@ghobetsky it’s called Optigan 1
Gorillaz reference
Omg I love blur I found it from the band gorillaz witch has been my biggest hyperfixation for the past two years lolz
Gotta love the optigan, those old 70’s samples, so fun! I believe it’s the first sampler, besides the Talentmaker and orchestron
I didn’t know that!
mellotron?
@@solarteamfortress Yeah, the mellotron was released in the 1960s, the optigan was released in 1971.
Then there's the chamberlin, which the mellotron evolved from, was developed in the 1940s and 50s.
@@tweer64 I really didn't know of any machines pre-dating the mellotron. that's so sick!
@@tweer64 you are my favorite type of commenter
As a kid I would call chirp the little big planet disc.
same
it creeps me out because reminds me of just a burning memory
Exactly it’s so weird
I think that someone made a Minecraft version of that and it was based off of Chirp.
that's just because of low sample rate + noise
it's just a chirping memory
Because it is
Little big planet is dying, and this is the last thing you can hear from it
Minecraft might change to unrecognizability, so you forget all your sweet, warm memories
They burn, they burn with this music that only thing you can actually remember.
i played a little big planet game (LBP2) for the first time just the other day, and hearing that sample really tripped me out. crazy how this got reccomended to me so soon after playing and thinking "damn that sounds like chirp".
Hahaha thats a crazy coincidence!!!
Enjoy the experience dude
I genuinely didn't make the connection until this video. I know both game franchises very well. I even played Minecraft alongside LBP some days growing up. Probably just didn't listen to the disks a lot.
Lol it was the opposite for me
YES YES YES, so nostalgic too
As someone who played LBP before I started Minecraft, I honestly thought that I was the only one that thought they sounded similar, then forgot about it when I started playing less games. I want to thank you so much for making this video, it answered that question that I forgot I even had! Thank you!
Chirp always had LBP vibes to me, but I thought it was just my memory mixing with nostalgia and playing tricks on me, until now.
Two of the most GOATED games. Both built my childhood
Same same :)
Sooo true
I played LBP1 first and when I first heard Chirp, I got super confused, lol.
Same, I was convinced that chirp had literally quoted a song from LBP1. Apparently it's merely _convergent evolution..._
@@WackoMcGoose I mean... C418 may have heard the sound from the LittleBigPlanet song before putting it into the song for Minecraft.
I remember instantly recognizing it as a kid. Feels nice to know where the sample is from
the song “modern day caine” by IDK how but they found me would later sample it :) i remember being shocked when i first heard it
I love how that song also has Steve's "Oo" damage sound effect in the beginning too. Makes me think they got inspired by chirp
@@kidztruthproductions HAHA it totally does. i never noticed that
It does???? I'll have to go back and check. I've listened to that song dozens of times and never noticed.
LITERALLY YESSS
@@NathanBoehmit's at the end
I was so bewildered by the coincidence that I once recreated the pod from LittleBigPlanet in Minecraft. And I was surprised about the origin of the sample, it all goes back to a sampler from the 70's.
This is a great video!
Also, a little note from a music theory nerd: I think another little big factor is the frequent use of the minor iv chord in the song, which invokes a feeling of nostalgia and bittersweetness.
Thanks for watching!
Ooooh that’s a cool insight! I wanna learn music theory 🥲
Minor IV doesnt exist unless you mean the dimished 4, which one are you talking about
@@arandomsuprathe chord progression in the first part of the song is
C major -> F major -> F minor
F major is the IV, which makes f minor the minor iv
@@potatojuiceultra Yeah so I literally just learned about how chird patterns are named and I was under the assumption that that meant 4th
@@arandomsupra It does mean the fourth, here's how chord naming works:
So, Chirp is in the key of C Major, which means it is based off of the C major scale: C D E F G A B C
You can make a chord off of each note in the scale, and the chords are assigned numbers based off of their degree.
So a chord based on C will be I, D will be II, E will be III, F is IV, and so on. Since we are talking about going from C to F in the song, that's going from 1 to 4 or I to IV.
Now to get more into the music theory behind Chirp specifically:
Each chord in a scale isn't usually just a major chord. Each scale degree has its own diatonic chord, which is a chord built only out of notes in the scale. So I is major, ii is minor, iii is minor, IV is major, V is major, vi is minor, and viiiº is diminished (Capital = major, lowercase = minor). Notice that the diatonic IV chord is major, there isn't usually a minor iv in a major key.
However, in a minor key, the diatonic chords are different. The fourth of a minor key is actually a minor chord. So, if you use a minor iv in a song that's in C major, you are "borrowing" a note/chord from C minor.
Generally, when you use a minor iv chord, you put it directly after a major IV chord and before a major I chord (this is what happens in Chirp. The major IV chord is very simple and has a lot of different functions, but I would say it generally has a happy sound while also wanting to move somewhere. Switching to the minor iv changes the bright major sound to a dark minor one by just changing the A to an Ab. It isn't a note you aren't usually expecting to hear, and it has a big impact. It also really really wants to resolve back to I (thanks to voice leading that I won't get into). And going through with that resolution brings the song back into a fully major sound, while also landing on I which acts as your "home" chord.
To me, this progression gives me the feelings of happiness -> sadness -> relief. A pretty accurate representation of the bittersweetness and nostalgia that the original commenter said.
I hope this made sense. I'm a music major and I love just talking about music theory, but I'm also really bad at explaining things.
Fun Fact: Moog City is named after the Moog line of synthesizers (you should really look into the history of Moog, its fascinating), Oxygene from the album of the same name in 1976 by Jean Michel Jarre, and Equinoxe from the album of the same name in 1978, also by Jean Michel Jarre
Little big planet is such a god dam, wonderful game. The customization dragged me in like a moth and fulled my imagination for years
oh man i had a super similar experience. i had never actually heard "chirp" until recently when i decided to give the minecraft soundtrack a listen on spotify and IMMEDIATELY i was shot back to my days of playing nothing but LBP. really weird experience. anyway, awesome video, you deserve more views.
Thanks!!
@@BennySGB OMFG LIKE THREE DAYS AGO I WAS LISTENING TO CHIRP IN THE CAR AND I SAID IT WAS WEIRD THAT THIS REMINDED ME OF LITTLE BIG PLANET HFDIAYWFIABWFUYABGWFIUBASUFSUF
@@T4ngi hahahahaha
Chirp was also my favourite disc back then. I remember loading a world just to play it in a jukebox too. The sampled part was what got me into the track and the latter half grew on me later. I remember people liking Cat better and even a PvP youtuber I followed at the time dissing at the red disc when first listening to it. It's good to know that Chirp has some praise as deserved
the optigan is like a more modern version of the mellotron which i think is where he got the sample for stal
This is why chirp has always been my favourite disc, it brings me nostalgia not only from playing minecraft, but also from when i was much younger playing LBP with my brother
I started playing Minecraft in BETA 1.3 and remember it so fondly. This CD, of course, didn't exist back then.
I love that this game has created memories for different generations.
When I listened to it, it gave me too memories of something; I was sure it came from the 60s or 70s, and here we are 1971. Thank you Mattel.
I KNEW IT
THE MOMENT I HEARD THIS SONG
I HAD A FEELING IT WAS FROM THERE LMAO
Lesssgoooo
give this video 8 million views NOW
Haha thanks 😄
I think your cast is slowly starting to work
when i heard "daniel pemberton" i audibly said "wow"
this video is mad underrated why hasn't everyone watched it yet
Haha as long as people are enjoying it
I personally was really into LBP before minecraft became pretty much a part of my life, but when I did, popping in Chirp into the juke box instantly had me freaking out as a kid thinking Mojang was actually referencing LBP
I was also listening to the Minecraft soundtrack this week and thought "Chirp" sounded familiar, I never knew it had this much history, well done with this video.
That’s awesome! Thanks for watching!
I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY ORB OF DREAMERS AND CHIRP SOUNDED SO SIMILAR
this "Chirp" tune sounded nostalgic to me bc it sounds like a sound track from Disney Universe (which is a game i played alot when i was like 7 or 8).
But it sounds especially like a mix of something from the Monsters Inc and Wall-E levels (which both features my favorite songs from this game).
Dude!! Thank you!! I grew up playing both of these games on the PlayStation and they were the main two I played. I knew when I was listening to the Minecraft soundtrack all those months ago that Chirp sounded like LBP but I thought maybe I was getting my memories confused.
Haha awesome
I'm so glad im not the only one who recognized the connection between these games
OH MY GOD, SIENCE I PLAY MINECRAFT ON THE PS3 AND HEAR THIS AMAZING SONG THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY HEAD WAS LITTLE BIG PLANET
i have always adored the lbp and minecraft soundtracks
This exact sample was also in a fangame I played as a kid called New Super Mario Forever, and when I heard it in Minecraft many years later, it was a very pleasant surprise.
LBP was by far the happiest thing that happened in my life.
Same 😪
Blud I was wondering about this shit for over a decade, this is actually mental
If i had a nickel for every time two well known composers sampled the same song for different games i would have two nickels which is not alot but its weird that it happened twice
Dude, i remeber said went i play minecraft on my ps3, and put the disc and say: hey, this sounds just like little big planet
C418 not only used samples from the Optigan but even from the Mellotron!!
You can hear a Mellotron (Chamberlin but its the same thing still) sample on the music disc, Stal.
The original sample I think is called... Mellotron master tapes Afrocuban/slowpiano
What is a Mellotron you ask? Its basically one of the worlds first samplers (well a different model came before it but that's a whole story for another day) released all the way back in 1965's Great Britain. It has 35 keys similar looking to a piano and the original model had 3 sounds to choose from that were all prerecorded instruments like the Optigan but all on strands of magnetic audio tapes. It had a volume nob and a even a pitch bending feature (Which worked by changing the motor which made it so you could even operate the instrument in the first place).
The 3 prerecorded sounds where 3 violins together, a cello and a choir all of which for each key had to be recorded separately onto tape.
Alot of artist have used the Mellotron in the 1960s and it became a staple in alot of recordings, chances are alot of late 1960s recording were a Mellotron rather than a full orchestra cause it was convenient at the time but still expensive to rent (Still is expensive today). It was on a ton of progressive rock records and the best selling artist of all time, The Beatles, famously used it on their song Strawberry fields Forever in that time period.
Sadly though the company who made the Mellotron went out of business in the mid to late 80s (probably because of the synth) but interest in this instrument was revived in the 90s when Radiohead used it on their album, Ok Computer.
Further more the whole company got relaunched in the early 2010s so you can actually go and buy a Mellotron right now!!!! Though their quite expensive, it features all the original sounds recorded in high detail for their newest keyboard so you should get your bang for your buck there.
The Mellotron is an absolutely facinating instrument and Im glad that people even today are hearing the sounds of the eerie and melancholic but nostalgic and lovely sounds of the Mellotron.
I never played with music, but Chirp I feel nostalgic for.
I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY
OH MY GOD! I WASN’T THE ONLY PERSON WHO THOUGHT THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE LBP!? I’M NOT ALONE! I’M NOT CRAZY! I’VE THOUGHT THIS EVER SINCE I FIRST HEARD THE SONG. I’M SO HAPPY THAT I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS!!
I've loved little big planet so much, my dad had a ps3 that me and my siblings would play endlessly on. One day he got Minecraft on the ps3 and I remember playing the music disc and finding chirp and thinking "hey this sounds like little big planet!" I thought it was stolen at first or that the same composer worked on both games. chirp is one of my favorite disc cuz it reminds me of Lbp, I remember seeing that the servers shut down and felt a lil sadder that day because one of the greatest early 2D sandbox games just lost alot of very creatively made levels, that will never see the light of day ever again
Omg I miss stampy so much, whenever I hear about the disc chirp, whether it's played or just mentioned, I instantly think "That's Stampy's Fave Disc"
chirp has been my favorite minecraft disc since i was very young. never thought much about it, it just sounded nice.
This is why I always loved Chirp out of every disc. It always reminded me of LBP.
I’ve always called chirp LBP music lol, just gave those vibes
the amount of coincidences around both these songs is insane
>same era (lbp: 2008 minecraft: 2009)
>both composers are named daniel
>both share the same sample
>both games are about creativity
>to top it off minecraft ps3, ps4, vita got an lbp dlc
Bro I would occasionally run into that song once every few YEARS, and every time I would feel an eerie sensation of nostalgia, and confusion because I couldn't realize where it came from. After years of searching I finally found it, I knew deep down it came from Little Big Planet all this time.
I used to be addicted to Little Big Planet as a kid, now I have no idea how to play it, it's been years since I played Little Big Planet
Lbp i think is the first game I played and I remember playing it with my brothers when I was 4, that was a great time.
I used to play both LBP and Minecraft when I was little, I always remembered chirp sounding like orb of dreamers. It’s a nice little memory I have and I’m glad others have the same memory.
Fun fact, in the Disney show Wonder Over Yonder, there's a scene where 2 characters are in an elevator and the same sample is playing, and STG I thought it was just chirp, cause it was the only place I had heard it!
Sabía que esa canción salía en LBP, pero no tenía idea sobre lo del Mattel Optigan. Gran video.
I have an Optigan, but I only have one disk for it (Big Organ and Drums). I really wish I had the Bossa Nova one.
This sample was also used in Disney's animated series "Wander over Yonder", specifically it was a part of the Lord Hater's Skullship Cafeteria theme
I’ve played Little Big Planet with my friend when I younger but I never noticed this!
HOLY SHIT INTERLUDE WITH LUDES IS ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME LISTEN TO THAT ENTIRE ALBUM RIGHT NOW
Man just seeing lbp opening again made me feel so much emotion
mellohi also has a mellotron sample btw 👍
Yeah I remember noticing the connection both games are so nostalgic but remember nostalgia is a weakness, and it’s good to make more memories and moving forward
That's true, in time, everything we are doing in this moment will one day be nostalgic lmaooo
Thank you for confirming my childhood brain wasn't crazy
I KNEW IT! i was wonder why did chirp remind me of LBP lol.
this makes so much sense my soul is shook those are my top 2 fav soundtracks of all time i KNEW IT
Same I love these soundtracks
I thought i was the only one that thought it sounded like little big planet I listen to it all the time in Minecraft because of that connection
Okay how does this all connect for me:
- I love both of the Spider-Man movies Daniel Pemberton composed for
- My favourite games from that time (and still kinda still are lol) are LBP and Minecraft
Like WHAT
It's honestly good to know im not insane, at first i thought i was crazy, and then i thought it was just from the LittleBigPlanet Texture pack world that console Minecraft had, but now i know, and closure is nice lmao.
as a kid who grew up on minecraft and lbp. i played both of them on a ps3, during the lbp crossover dlc for minecraft i kinda just assumed chirp came from that so i never really thought anything was weird. tho back then when i first heard it in minecraft i was like "NO WAY IT'S THAT SONG FROM LBP"... damn... i miss lbp and minecraft, the simpler days
Thank you SO MUCH for this video. I was thinking of this about 2 weeks ago and was shocked to know it wasn't even the same song, nor the same composer
3:16 woah, guess that type of music inspired space station silicon valley's soundtrack
I'm so happy that finally someone made a video about it :]
Hearing what I know as Chirp as sample fragments gives me an uneasy feeling hearing one part of my childhood in settings and orders it doesn’t belong. Hopefully I can sleep tonight lol.
That’s crazy, I’ve had this same thought process before but probably not thought about this topic in like 6 years lmao
Hahah same it’s always been on my mind but just recently decided to look more into it and actually make a video on it lol
never played LBP but i adore investigations like this into your core memories essentially! also it's crazy how this one sample inspired so many musicians and went in almost unchanged
how tf does this only have 300 views man 😭
Haha doesn’t matter as long as people enjoy the content 👌👌👌
so it uh has 2.4k now
6.666 now 👹
I remember playing Little Big Planet. I loved it and always wanted to play it with my brother and sister. I remember the little mission-parkour-thingies to be so hard - v - But I was just a kid, so it didn't matter whether I lost or not :)
When you said nostalgic, I didn't think it'd be THIS nostalgic.
Aside from Chirp and LBP, Interludes with Ludes by Them Crooked Vultures uses the same instrument.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I love this song since LBP's release, know where it came is wonderfull
OMFG SOMEONE REMEMBERS LBP!!1!!11
Let’s make bossa nova style the next amen break, let’s sample it everywhere we can
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT BRO THE TWO GAMES I GREW UP WITH WERE EARLY MINECRAFT AND LITTLE BIG PLANET 2
Dude this video came out around the time I realised they both used the same song sample, and just NOW I get recommended this video lol. Good video man!
I'm a simple man: I see Sackboy, I click.
Why when I think of the song "Chirp" I think of a VHS tape like video of all Stampy's dogs dead on the floor with blood all over the floor. The lighting is also very yellow-orange for some reason.
I feel like Mattel has gotta have sampled that from somewhere else. That's usually how they get those pre-made songs on there, right?
Not sure sometimes samples like that are recorded FOR the system
0:36 STAMPY MENTION!!!
Stampys the goat
Funny thing, that song was always familiar to me too, I grew up playing both Little Big Planet 2 and Minecraft and I just never noticed it.
Today I was watching a video where a youtuber used the Chirp disc music in it, and when I went to check the list of songs used in the video, expecting it to be from LBP, I saw it was from Minecraft, and wondered "I swear I've heard this in LBP", and, just besides the Chirp music disc video, was yours, confiming my suspicions :D
dude i love chirp its a 10/10 it does not bother me at all its really cool it makes you feel like youre in a 90's movie or smth
I made a song called Shrub and I wanted it to sound like chirp but it ended up sounding like Wait😢
That sample is very awesome and mysteriously nostalgic I wish I could capture music like C418 could😭
BTW the same guy who did that music made the music for Kinect Adventures and it goes hard
Yes! I knew chirp was orb of dreamers, whenever I hear that specific sample…I always think little big planet. I miss that game
This is an amazing discovery. I had all ways thought little big planets orb of dreamers song was familiar and now I know why it was chirp from Minecraft the whole time!
OH MY GOD FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED THE CONNECTION I THOUGHT I'VE BEEN LOSING MY MIND ALL THESE YEARS
Ever since I played LBP2 I never could unhear that first part